From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755975AbZA0Aq2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:46:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753834AbZA0AqR (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:46:17 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:8108 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753288AbZA0AqQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:46:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d/xNOAvB2gpl2Sg46qjq3RidufE2+p4aFTPkHgTPiulsMYroqiaHYZrJXlk5qqFCHe 9I8DaIJu5Gea5NAj06OPkSvdIwne7vn3ZC7TNn64d+UOP2kM5w43Fc4F64MT6X6BYRqO FTQskkSRqWOTk+qqKyJgMRQdxmcLmWOQZrj/w= Message-ID: <497E595F.2010708@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:46:23 +0100 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: narendramind@spikesource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-abi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: syscalls: sys_setrlimit64/sys_getrlimit64 calls to provide FSIZE limits > 2^32-1 References: <200901231759.n0NHxKA3009104@eng-pool-55.spikesource.com> <200901262004.16364.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200901262004.16364.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009, narendramind@spikesource.com wrote: >> The solution to this problem would require new setrlimit64() and >> getrlimit64() system calls on x86, and the existing 32-bit system calls >> would need to be retained so that existing binaries would still run. > > When adding new syscalls, please Cc: linux-abi@vger.kernel.org and Arnd -- I think you meant linux-api, not linux-abi. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html